Should your nonprofit start a business? ? Peel Leadership Centre

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Peel Leadership Centre

From the Globe and Mail:

?For Canada?s 180,000 not-for-profit groups, competition is tight for scarce funding from individual and corporate donors, foundations and governments.

So a social enterprise ? a business with a social or philanthropic mission in addition to (or instead of) profit ? expands the pool of donors. These people may have reached their personal limit of charitable giving but can still contribute to a cause by buying a socially conscious version of a product or service they would have otherwise bought with no positive social impact.?

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